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Big Island's Kona Coffee Living History Farm

KCBX | By Tom Wilmer
Published December 28, 2016 at 5:40 AM PST
Ryan Nakata drying Kona coffee beans at the Kona Historical Society's Uchida Coffee Farm
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Just a short hop down the road from the Sheraton Kona Resort and Spa is Kona Historical Society’s, Kona Coffee Living History farm, the onetime home of the Uchida Coffee farm founded in 1913.
While staying at the Sheraton Kona, one of the most memorable nearby explorations was discovering how Kona coffee was grown and harvested by the pioneering Japanese farmers on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Kona Coffee processing shed at the Uchida Coffee Farm on the Big Island of Hawaii
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Kona Coffee processing shed at the Uchida Coffee Farm on the Big Island of Hawaii
1926 gasoline engine at the Uchida Kona Coffee farm on the Big Island of Hawaii
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1926 gasoline engine at the Uchida Kona Coffee farm on the Big Island of Hawaii
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Tom Wilmer
Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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